- Also Known As:
- Unknown
- Year:
- 2012
- Countries:
- Predominant Genre:
- Comedy
- Director:
- Outstanding Performances:
- Premiss:
- Luciano is a charming fishmonger whose unexpected and sudden obsession with being a contestant on a reality show leads him down a rabbit hole of skewed perceptions and paranoia.
- Themes:
- Alienation | Christianity | Destiny | Emotional repression | Family | Friendship | God | Grieving | Guilt | Identity | Loneliness | Loyalty | Materialism | Narcissism | Personal change |
Self-expression | Social class | Solipsism | White culture - Similar (in Plot, Theme or Style) to:
- White Sheik
- Review Format:
- DVD
DEUS EX MACHINA: Caucasian Escapism
Intriguing film about the White inability to clearly separate fantasy from reality and to realize that the former is a subset of the latter.
The sense that Grande Fratello (Big Brother) is a metaphor for God seeing everything, is portrayed here not as a reason to feel paranoid about what one is doing (or not doing) in the absence of clear guidance regarding right & wrong, but as a chance to escape reality by losing one’s identity by merging it with a false god.
Celebrity-without-talent is seen as a Holy Grail toward self-advancement and achievement, such that the celebratedness, itself, becomes the talent - a talent for merely being well-known.
The film fails in not successfully exploring why Whites need such escapism in order to functon. And, despite the high-quality performances on show, the central characters remain cyphers - as trapped in their milieu as the movie itself.
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